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[Unidentified woman] – Antique Photo Print

[Unidentified woman], [between 1844 and 1860] — historic photograph
[Unidentified woman], [between 1844 and 1860]. Historic photograph from the Daguerreotypes & Early Photography collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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A sixth-plate daguerreotype with gold toning, its back scratched with the number 213, shows the careful record-keeping of a busy studio. It was produced in the studio of Mathew Brady in the years before the Civil War, when sitting for a photographic portrait was still a fashionable novelty. Gold chloride toning strengthened the silver image and warmed its tones, a finishing step many studios used to help plates last longer. The plate later passed through the U.S. War College and reached the Library of Congress in 1920.

Created / published[between 1844 and 1860]
Medium1 photograph : sixth plate daguerreotype, gold toned.
GenrePortrait photographs 1840-1860.Daguerreotypes 1840-1860.
NotesScratched on back of plate: 213. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920; (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Produced by Mathew Brady's studio.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,295 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
Reference490_Unidentified_woman_1844

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